Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 86, 11 August 1915, Page 6

Eastern News

RUSSIANS EVACUATING VILNA.

United Pukss Association. ('Roaeiretl 12/15 p»m.) 'I ' '""V Retrograd;; August 10. TheßUssians are preparing to evacuate Yilna. ' i ('

'• " (Vihiais on the nntin railway, rquto Petrograd-Brest-Ivitovs'k- Warsaw rail-! way route, and about 455 miles SouthEast of ■ Kovno. If the Germans get? astride this line, the Russians have only the = MoScaw line to feed their armies. The withdrawal from Vilna will necessitate a withdrawal almost to Smolensk, Brest Litovsk being nntenable, as the evacuation of Yilna and a Russian reverse in the North would expose the centre to a rear attack.)

I'etrograd, August 10. An Exchange telegram from Copenhagen states that the Kaiser's alleged peace overtures are officiallv denied.

GERMAN- PROGRESS REPORT.

(Received 12.55 p.m.)

Amsterdam, August 10. A German communique states: General Von Seholtz stormed and captured the Loinza fortress, and after, severe .fighting southwards of Lomza we ; crossed the river at Ostrow Ostrpw;is still in. the enemy's hands. From Bowjany, ,wcstwa':-'d* of Brok, which, is twelve kilometres south of Astrmv, we reached the Bug. Since the 7th, we captured twenty-three officers and ten thousand men'in that region. Prince Leopold of Bavaria is neanng the Stauislavow-Xovominsk road. Genera] Yon Wovrseh, pursuing the enemy, has reached the district northward of Zelechow. and is now close in touch with General Yon Mackensen's advancing armies. The enemy's rearguards on the Ostrow-Bu s front were thrown hack to the. main forces;